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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1944-03-31

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1944-03-31, page 01

JIHRONICLE
^[^//"Ser^'mq Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community \\y/\\X
VoJ. 22, No, 14 Entered as Secpnd-CIasB Matter, _^ PostoMice Columbus,, Ohfo.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH ,11, 1044
Devoted lo Amerfcan and Jewlih Ideali
Strictly Confidential
IHahUa Froni Everyirben By Phlneas J. Blron
Expects No Decision On White Paper Now, Dr. Goldstein Says
SOMETHING TO RF/MKMBER .
Ba "My mind runs to a name familiar to you all —Chnlm Weiz¬ mann—who came over to this country because he saw us on the point of making some very serious mistakes with regard to our rubber program and because he felt that oil could not do it by its'elf, and so he brought in al¬ cohol to do the Job . . . And I know of my own definite per¬ sonal experience, because he came to me at that time and I made Ihe connections for him ... I know that ho made it possible for us to avoid a very, very ser^ ious mistake Jn terms of the war effort" . . . This statement was made by none other than Vice President Wallace ... It speaks volumes for the import¬ ance of the U. S. Government at¬ taches to Dr. Welzmann's con¬ tribution to the American war effort ... WAR NEWS . . . 1^ The title of Number-One man in the Army Air Forces in point of physical fitness has just been . copped by Air Cadet Milton R. (Bob) F>omkin of Omaha, son of attorney Max Fromkin of that city . . . Bob, who is a nephew of Morris Fromkin well known member of the New Tiork and Milwaukee bai also came out
Training Department some time ago Flying Officer S S
Shulemson of the RCAF who recently was awarded the Dis¬ tinguished Service Order for "in¬ spiring leadership, great skill and courage" in an attack on an enemy convoy, Is the son of the Saul Shulemsons of Montreal. . . There's a new soothsayer In town, Myrus by name, who pre¬ dicts that war in Europe will be over ihis year and that the Pacific war will take another two years to win . . . We don't, of course, vouch for the prognos- ticator's reliability — and we do hear that he invariably loses his bets on the races . . . MUSIC NOTES . . . ,}^ Carnegie Hall was ttie scene of an unusual event laist week when a famed conductor cele¬ brated his fiftieth anniversary on the podium by conducting the New York Philharmonic Orches¬ tra .. . The celebrant was none other than Bruno Walter — and he made the occasion all the more memorable by conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony from memory . . . Montreal musjc lovers had a unique ex¬ perience early this month when their own Festivals Orchestra, under the baton of the noted English conducftor Sir Thomas Beecham, presented a symphonic poem, "The Oracle", composed by a gifted young Montrealer, Alexander Brott . . . Just in time for the spring holiday season comes the new Mischa Elman Red Seal recording of Ernest Bloch's "Nigun", sub-titled "No. 2 ot Baal Shem — Pictures of Chassldic Life". , . . )^ tt the plan to have John Gar¬ field star in a new war film goes through, you may expect •an extraordinarily fine perfor¬ mance . . . John has been play¬ ing the "foxhole curcuit" In Italy,'and keeping his eyes and ears open . . . Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who has been in Hollywood for maijiy years now and has.some, filrtidom's finest musical arrangements to his »-v, (Continued on Page 8)
NEW YORK (JPS)—There is not likely to be any. new pronouncement of policy on Pal¬ estine hy the British Govern¬ ment now and the present situa¬ tion concerning the White Paper will probably be held in sus¬ pense, it was reported by Dr. Israel Goldstein, president ot the Zionist Organization of Amer¬ ica, who has Just returned from London. The consensus of opin¬ ion in London is that a decision on Palestine is being postponed till after the war, he said. He added that this must not be pas¬ sively accepted, because "other postwar commitments are being made now in spite of their deli¬ cate and even controversial na¬ ture". ',
Dr. Goldstein spoke with ad¬ miration of the activity of Brit¬ ish Jewry both in the war effort and in Jewish affairs. He aLso stated that the readiness of Congress to pass the Jewish Commonwealth resolutions, be¬ fore the intervention of the military authorities, created a great impression in official Brit, ish circles.
Ohio-Ky. B'nai B'rith Ass'n. Holds Session In Cincinnati
Bryden Road Temple Will Hold Seder Next Friday Evening
The Bryden Road Temple will hold a Congregational Seder next Friday, April 7th. at 0:30 P. M,, it was announced this week by Leonard J. Stern, president of the Brotherhood sponsoring this event.
According to Rudolph Stern, Seder chairman, the meal proper will be prepared by a special committee, under the leadership of Mrs. Harry L. Freldenberg, and will include the customary Passover dishes. Ail the ar¬ rangements are Intended that those present will enjoy a beau¬ tiful and happy celebration.
The price will be $2.25 for adults, and $1.1)0 for children. All the memhers are advised to make immediate arrangements for their accommodation, since the number accepted will be lim¬ ited to 150. Reservations .should be in ivriting, accompanied by a check, addre,s.sed to Temple Is¬ rael, The Brotherhood has sent out reservation cards and these should be relurned prompt¬ ly by all persons interested.
To assm'e accommodations,res¬ ervations must be received at the Temple Office not later than Tuesday, April -Ith.
The seoond sectional meeting fit'i. tha -, Ohlo.Kentwcj£y , anal B'dlh Assodatloa- was 'Held °ln Cincinnati last iSunday, with Al¬ lan Tarshlsh State President as Chairman of the day s program.
Those from Columbus on the agenda included Abe Wolman, on Social Service: Walter Katz, on A. Z. A. and membership; Mrs. Joseph Schecter, Chairman of the Hillel Committee of Di.'i- trict No. 2 Ladies Auxiliaries; and Rahhi Harry Kaplan,,Direc¬ tor of the Hiliel Foundation at Ohio State University, who was the principal speaker on the subject of Hillel and the War Servica
The last two ¦ sectional meet¬ ings wili take place in Youngs¬ town on April 16, and in Cleve¬ land on April 23rd.
OPEN FRONTIERS TO JEWS - F. D. R. PLEA TO ALL NEUTRALS AS NAZIS GRAB BALKANS
Appeals to People of Occupied Europe to Hide Jews, Help
Them Across Borders And Warns Participants in
Anti-Jewish Atrocities That
"NONE SHALL GO UNPUNISHED"
To Show War Movies At B'nai B'rith Meet Next Tuesday
SECOND SON OP MR AND MBS I TOl'OLOSKY BUPORTESD MISSING
Action sound picture.^, taken in the midst nf battle, and originally used to supplement official reports to the gen¬ eral staff, will be a feature of next T u e fi d a .v evening's meeting (April •!) of Zion Lodge No.- (12, B'nai B'rith. These are sound movies with plenty of action on the various war thea¬ tres where our men are giving a real account of themselves.
As an added attraction, there will be persona] reports by men recentiy returned from actual hattle in the Kuropean and South Pacific areas, now station¬ ed at Locklxiurno Air I^ase.
The meeting, which is open to all memhers. their wives and friends, will liegii* promptly al 8 o'clock in the auditorium Qf the East Broad Street Temple.
German Prisoner In U. S. Asks For Hebrew Prayer Book
NEW YORK (JPS)—A prayer book and a Bible, bearing the Hebrew text opposite a German translation, was dispatched by the National. Jewish Welfare Board of this city to a German war prisoner at Camp Brecken- ridge, Kentucky. This was in response to a request submitted by the war prisoner, whose name is undlvulged, to Jewish Chap¬ lain Jacol) Ott. The German, son of a mixed marriage, asked for a prayer book, a Bible "and and other Hebrew literature", and aiso for permission to at¬ tend Jewish services conducted by Amertcan soldiers of the Jewish faith stationed on guard at the camp. The last request was submitted to Army authori¬ ties.
Reports are current that Ger¬ man war prisoners in the Uni¬ ted States deviating from Nazi views have been assassinated by their Nazi colleagues.
Show your appreciation to the Cbronlcle'8 2S years of loyal and devoted service to Columbas Jewlab^Coniinnn- Ity by paying your snbscrlp- I tlon now . $3.00 for the year.
'"^li IS, tnHU deep regret we an¬ nounce that Sgt Harry A Top¬ olosky age 22 whose brother 1st Lt. Maurice K, Top.son, was killed accidentally in England last December, has been missing in action since Feb. 18, accord ing to word received by. his parents, Mr. and Mrs.-Isaac Top olosky, 1000 S. Champion Ave
Sgt. Topolosky, serving with the infantry, had been overseas only two weeks when hC' was reported missing, his parents saiti, A graduate of South High School, he attended Ohio State Dnlversity two years. He has been In the army about 20 months.
Mr. and Mrs. Topolosky have two other sons In the service, Capt. Myron C. Topsoh, Camp Davis. N. C., and Joseph Topol¬ osky, of the U. S. Coast Ouard.
Irt
Training Course For Future Leaders
A training course for adults and young adults designed to equip them for youth group work is now In the process of being set up at the Schonthal Center,
For some time members of local youth organizations have expressed the desire for secur¬ ing adequate adult leadership. At the same time a number of adult leaders and potential leaders have also asked for ma¬ terial and guidance so that they could be more successful wllh their groups.
Tlble Thall, chairman of the course, and Leonard Sebrans, di¬ rector, have announced plans for securing several outstanding men in the group work field to serve as discussion leaders at some of the sessions.
Because only a litnited num¬ ber can be accommodated, it will be necessary that those groups desiring to send dele¬ gates to the course, submit their names as soon as possible.
Cook To Address Council Wom^n ,,,, Tuesday At 2 P. j^:
Recently returned from Africa Ml Claie E Cooli native of Co Iumbus, will be the guest speak¬ er al the April meeting of the Council of Jew¬ ish Women, next Tuesday at 2 p. m., at lhe Bryden Rd. Temple.
IMr, Cook a \eteran of lhe fust World \\ ar, has been SCI ving fl V e r- seas as a unit d 1 r e c t o r for the Red Cross, in charge of Clara Cook g j^ entertain¬
ment Rrou|) first in England and later in Africa. He was forced to return lo lhi.s country because of illness.
His talk will give an account of .some of his experiences while abroad, covering a period of al¬ most a year In work with Amer¬ ican soldiers,
Mrs. Simon Hornheim will give the opening prayer. Chil¬ dren of pre-school age may ac¬ company Ihelr mothers to, the meeting and will be cared for by' a competent adult.
.JEWISH DOCrrORiS EXPERIMENT IN
NEUROSES
—Buy War Bonds
CHICAGO (JPS) Uses of mor¬ phine for the treatment of neu¬ roses are announced in a report on a series of experiments tm "neurotic-" cats conducted by Dr, A. Wixler of the United States Public Health Service and Ur. J. H, Masserman of the Univer¬ sity of Chicago. ¦ The report is published in the Archives of Neurology an id Psychiatry. It was found that under the in¬ fluence of the drugs the most re¬ cently acquired behavior pat¬ terns were forgotten first and, as the effects of the dose wore off, they were the last to be re- learned.
WASHINOTON (JPS)—Presi¬ dent Roo.sevelt acted to lessen the, peril for the clo.se lo two million Jews facing extermina¬ tion at the hands of the Nazi Forces in Hungary, Sumania and Bulgaria, hy directing a last-minute appeal to the neu¬ trals and to the populace of Europe, Including the Germans, that they assist the United Sta¬ tes in rescuing the Jews from Hitler's reach. With reports fil¬ tering in from Rumania and Hungary of violence uniossed against the Jews as the Nazis marched in, the President called upon neutral countries to open their frontiers to the fleeing Jews and called upon the popu¬ lace of the occupied counlries to hide the Jews, help them across frontiers and lo "record lhe evi¬ dence that will one day be used lo Convict the guilty".
About half of the statement, ireating with the plight of all refugees, deals specifically with the Jews and wilh the develop¬ ments in the Balkans In recent da>s Tht passages rcfcii'ing to tht Jews follows
In one o£ the blackest crimes o*,Satt?W8tory—begUA »y, ^o' Sazls'ln ^therdaS^pf ;pe^CL'^ah4T multiplied by them a hundred ' times in time of war—the whole¬ sale systematic murder of the Jews of Europe goes on unabat¬ ed every hour,
, "As a result of the events of , the last few days, hundreds of thou.sands of Jews, who while living under persecution have at least found a haven from death in Hungary and the Bal¬ kans, are now threatened with annihilation as lliller's forces desceiui more heyvily upon these lanri.s. That the.se innocent peo¬ ple, who have alreatly survived a decade of Hitler's fury, should perish on the very eve of tri¬ umph over the barbarism which their persecution . symbolizes, wouid be a major tragedy.
"it is therefore fitting thai we should again proclaim our deier- mination that none who partici¬ pate in these acts of savagery shall go unpunished. The Uni¬ ted Nallons have made it clear that they will pursue the guilty and deliver lhem up in order that justice he done.
"That warning applies not only lo the leaders bul alao to their funclionaries and subordinate's in Germany and in the satellite countries.
Warns Accomplices "All who knowingly take part in the deportation of Jews to their death in Poland or Nor¬ wegians and French to their death In Germany are equally guilty with the executioner. All who share the guilt shall share the punishment.
"Hilier is committing these crimes against humanity in the name of the German people. I ask every German and every man everywhere under Nazi dominatiori to show the world by his aclion that In his heart he does nol share these insape crim¬ inal desires, Let him hide these pursued victims, heip them to get over their borders, and do what he can to save them from the Nazi hangman. I ask him also to keep watch, and to record the evidence that will one day (Continued on Page Four)

JIHRONICLE
^[^//"Ser^'mq Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community \\y/\\X
VoJ. 22, No, 14 Entered as Secpnd-CIasB Matter, _^ PostoMice Columbus,, Ohfo.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH ,11, 1044
Devoted lo Amerfcan and Jewlih Ideali
Strictly Confidential
IHahUa Froni Everyirben By Phlneas J. Blron
Expects No Decision On White Paper Now, Dr. Goldstein Says
SOMETHING TO RF/MKMBER .
Ba "My mind runs to a name familiar to you all —Chnlm Weiz¬ mann—who came over to this country because he saw us on the point of making some very serious mistakes with regard to our rubber program and because he felt that oil could not do it by its'elf, and so he brought in al¬ cohol to do the Job . . . And I know of my own definite per¬ sonal experience, because he came to me at that time and I made Ihe connections for him ... I know that ho made it possible for us to avoid a very, very ser^ ious mistake Jn terms of the war effort" . . . This statement was made by none other than Vice President Wallace ... It speaks volumes for the import¬ ance of the U. S. Government at¬ taches to Dr. Welzmann's con¬ tribution to the American war effort ... WAR NEWS . . . 1^ The title of Number-One man in the Army Air Forces in point of physical fitness has just been . copped by Air Cadet Milton R. (Bob) F>omkin of Omaha, son of attorney Max Fromkin of that city . . . Bob, who is a nephew of Morris Fromkin well known member of the New Tiork and Milwaukee bai also came out
Training Department some time ago Flying Officer S S
Shulemson of the RCAF who recently was awarded the Dis¬ tinguished Service Order for "in¬ spiring leadership, great skill and courage" in an attack on an enemy convoy, Is the son of the Saul Shulemsons of Montreal. . . There's a new soothsayer In town, Myrus by name, who pre¬ dicts that war in Europe will be over ihis year and that the Pacific war will take another two years to win . . . We don't, of course, vouch for the prognos- ticator's reliability — and we do hear that he invariably loses his bets on the races . . . MUSIC NOTES . . . ,}^ Carnegie Hall was ttie scene of an unusual event laist week when a famed conductor cele¬ brated his fiftieth anniversary on the podium by conducting the New York Philharmonic Orches¬ tra .. . The celebrant was none other than Bruno Walter — and he made the occasion all the more memorable by conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony from memory . . . Montreal musjc lovers had a unique ex¬ perience early this month when their own Festivals Orchestra, under the baton of the noted English conducftor Sir Thomas Beecham, presented a symphonic poem, "The Oracle", composed by a gifted young Montrealer, Alexander Brott . . . Just in time for the spring holiday season comes the new Mischa Elman Red Seal recording of Ernest Bloch's "Nigun", sub-titled "No. 2 ot Baal Shem — Pictures of Chassldic Life". , . . )^ tt the plan to have John Gar¬ field star in a new war film goes through, you may expect •an extraordinarily fine perfor¬ mance . . . John has been play¬ ing the "foxhole curcuit" In Italy,'and keeping his eyes and ears open . . . Erich Wolfgang Korngold, who has been in Hollywood for maijiy years now and has.some, filrtidom's finest musical arrangements to his »-v, (Continued on Page 8)
NEW YORK (JPS)—There is not likely to be any. new pronouncement of policy on Pal¬ estine hy the British Govern¬ ment now and the present situa¬ tion concerning the White Paper will probably be held in sus¬ pense, it was reported by Dr. Israel Goldstein, president ot the Zionist Organization of Amer¬ ica, who has Just returned from London. The consensus of opin¬ ion in London is that a decision on Palestine is being postponed till after the war, he said. He added that this must not be pas¬ sively accepted, because "other postwar commitments are being made now in spite of their deli¬ cate and even controversial na¬ ture". ',
Dr. Goldstein spoke with ad¬ miration of the activity of Brit¬ ish Jewry both in the war effort and in Jewish affairs. He aLso stated that the readiness of Congress to pass the Jewish Commonwealth resolutions, be¬ fore the intervention of the military authorities, created a great impression in official Brit, ish circles.
Ohio-Ky. B'nai B'rith Ass'n. Holds Session In Cincinnati
Bryden Road Temple Will Hold Seder Next Friday Evening
The Bryden Road Temple will hold a Congregational Seder next Friday, April 7th. at 0:30 P. M,, it was announced this week by Leonard J. Stern, president of the Brotherhood sponsoring this event.
According to Rudolph Stern, Seder chairman, the meal proper will be prepared by a special committee, under the leadership of Mrs. Harry L. Freldenberg, and will include the customary Passover dishes. Ail the ar¬ rangements are Intended that those present will enjoy a beau¬ tiful and happy celebration.
The price will be $2.25 for adults, and $1.1)0 for children. All the memhers are advised to make immediate arrangements for their accommodation, since the number accepted will be lim¬ ited to 150. Reservations .should be in ivriting, accompanied by a check, addre,s.sed to Temple Is¬ rael, The Brotherhood has sent out reservation cards and these should be relurned prompt¬ ly by all persons interested.
To assm'e accommodations,res¬ ervations must be received at the Temple Office not later than Tuesday, April -Ith.
The seoond sectional meeting fit'i. tha -, Ohlo.Kentwcj£y , anal B'dlh Assodatloa- was 'Held °ln Cincinnati last iSunday, with Al¬ lan Tarshlsh State President as Chairman of the day s program.
Those from Columbus on the agenda included Abe Wolman, on Social Service: Walter Katz, on A. Z. A. and membership; Mrs. Joseph Schecter, Chairman of the Hillel Committee of Di.'i- trict No. 2 Ladies Auxiliaries; and Rahhi Harry Kaplan,,Direc¬ tor of the Hiliel Foundation at Ohio State University, who was the principal speaker on the subject of Hillel and the War Servica
The last two ¦ sectional meet¬ ings wili take place in Youngs¬ town on April 16, and in Cleve¬ land on April 23rd.
OPEN FRONTIERS TO JEWS - F. D. R. PLEA TO ALL NEUTRALS AS NAZIS GRAB BALKANS
Appeals to People of Occupied Europe to Hide Jews, Help
Them Across Borders And Warns Participants in
Anti-Jewish Atrocities That
"NONE SHALL GO UNPUNISHED"
To Show War Movies At B'nai B'rith Meet Next Tuesday
SECOND SON OP MR AND MBS I TOl'OLOSKY BUPORTESD MISSING
Action sound picture.^, taken in the midst nf battle, and originally used to supplement official reports to the gen¬ eral staff, will be a feature of next T u e fi d a .v evening's meeting (April •!) of Zion Lodge No.- (12, B'nai B'rith. These are sound movies with plenty of action on the various war thea¬ tres where our men are giving a real account of themselves.
As an added attraction, there will be persona] reports by men recentiy returned from actual hattle in the Kuropean and South Pacific areas, now station¬ ed at Locklxiurno Air I^ase.
The meeting, which is open to all memhers. their wives and friends, will liegii* promptly al 8 o'clock in the auditorium Qf the East Broad Street Temple.
German Prisoner In U. S. Asks For Hebrew Prayer Book
NEW YORK (JPS)—A prayer book and a Bible, bearing the Hebrew text opposite a German translation, was dispatched by the National. Jewish Welfare Board of this city to a German war prisoner at Camp Brecken- ridge, Kentucky. This was in response to a request submitted by the war prisoner, whose name is undlvulged, to Jewish Chap¬ lain Jacol) Ott. The German, son of a mixed marriage, asked for a prayer book, a Bible "and and other Hebrew literature", and aiso for permission to at¬ tend Jewish services conducted by Amertcan soldiers of the Jewish faith stationed on guard at the camp. The last request was submitted to Army authori¬ ties.
Reports are current that Ger¬ man war prisoners in the Uni¬ ted States deviating from Nazi views have been assassinated by their Nazi colleagues.
Show your appreciation to the Cbronlcle'8 2S years of loyal and devoted service to Columbas Jewlab^Coniinnn- Ity by paying your snbscrlp- I tlon now . $3.00 for the year.
'"^li IS, tnHU deep regret we an¬ nounce that Sgt Harry A Top¬ olosky age 22 whose brother 1st Lt. Maurice K, Top.son, was killed accidentally in England last December, has been missing in action since Feb. 18, accord ing to word received by. his parents, Mr. and Mrs.-Isaac Top olosky, 1000 S. Champion Ave
Sgt. Topolosky, serving with the infantry, had been overseas only two weeks when hC' was reported missing, his parents saiti, A graduate of South High School, he attended Ohio State Dnlversity two years. He has been In the army about 20 months.
Mr. and Mrs. Topolosky have two other sons In the service, Capt. Myron C. Topsoh, Camp Davis. N. C., and Joseph Topol¬ osky, of the U. S. Coast Ouard.
Irt
Training Course For Future Leaders
A training course for adults and young adults designed to equip them for youth group work is now In the process of being set up at the Schonthal Center,
For some time members of local youth organizations have expressed the desire for secur¬ ing adequate adult leadership. At the same time a number of adult leaders and potential leaders have also asked for ma¬ terial and guidance so that they could be more successful wllh their groups.
Tlble Thall, chairman of the course, and Leonard Sebrans, di¬ rector, have announced plans for securing several outstanding men in the group work field to serve as discussion leaders at some of the sessions.
Because only a litnited num¬ ber can be accommodated, it will be necessary that those groups desiring to send dele¬ gates to the course, submit their names as soon as possible.
Cook To Address Council Wom^n ,,,, Tuesday At 2 P. j^:
Recently returned from Africa Ml Claie E Cooli native of Co Iumbus, will be the guest speak¬ er al the April meeting of the Council of Jew¬ ish Women, next Tuesday at 2 p. m., at lhe Bryden Rd. Temple.
IMr, Cook a \eteran of lhe fust World \\ ar, has been SCI ving fl V e r- seas as a unit d 1 r e c t o r for the Red Cross, in charge of Clara Cook g j^ entertain¬
ment Rrou|) first in England and later in Africa. He was forced to return lo lhi.s country because of illness.
His talk will give an account of .some of his experiences while abroad, covering a period of al¬ most a year In work with Amer¬ ican soldiers,
Mrs. Simon Hornheim will give the opening prayer. Chil¬ dren of pre-school age may ac¬ company Ihelr mothers to, the meeting and will be cared for by' a competent adult.
.JEWISH DOCrrORiS EXPERIMENT IN
NEUROSES
—Buy War Bonds
CHICAGO (JPS) Uses of mor¬ phine for the treatment of neu¬ roses are announced in a report on a series of experiments tm "neurotic-" cats conducted by Dr, A. Wixler of the United States Public Health Service and Ur. J. H, Masserman of the Univer¬ sity of Chicago. ¦ The report is published in the Archives of Neurology an id Psychiatry. It was found that under the in¬ fluence of the drugs the most re¬ cently acquired behavior pat¬ terns were forgotten first and, as the effects of the dose wore off, they were the last to be re- learned.
WASHINOTON (JPS)—Presi¬ dent Roo.sevelt acted to lessen the, peril for the clo.se lo two million Jews facing extermina¬ tion at the hands of the Nazi Forces in Hungary, Sumania and Bulgaria, hy directing a last-minute appeal to the neu¬ trals and to the populace of Europe, Including the Germans, that they assist the United Sta¬ tes in rescuing the Jews from Hitler's reach. With reports fil¬ tering in from Rumania and Hungary of violence uniossed against the Jews as the Nazis marched in, the President called upon neutral countries to open their frontiers to the fleeing Jews and called upon the popu¬ lace of the occupied counlries to hide the Jews, help them across frontiers and lo "record lhe evi¬ dence that will one day be used lo Convict the guilty".
About half of the statement, ireating with the plight of all refugees, deals specifically with the Jews and wilh the develop¬ ments in the Balkans In recent da>s Tht passages rcfcii'ing to tht Jews follows
In one o£ the blackest crimes o*,Satt?W8tory—begUA »y, ^o' Sazls'ln ^therdaS^pf ;pe^CL'^ah4T multiplied by them a hundred ' times in time of war—the whole¬ sale systematic murder of the Jews of Europe goes on unabat¬ ed every hour,
, "As a result of the events of , the last few days, hundreds of thou.sands of Jews, who while living under persecution have at least found a haven from death in Hungary and the Bal¬ kans, are now threatened with annihilation as lliller's forces desceiui more heyvily upon these lanri.s. That the.se innocent peo¬ ple, who have alreatly survived a decade of Hitler's fury, should perish on the very eve of tri¬ umph over the barbarism which their persecution . symbolizes, wouid be a major tragedy.
"it is therefore fitting thai we should again proclaim our deier- mination that none who partici¬ pate in these acts of savagery shall go unpunished. The Uni¬ ted Nallons have made it clear that they will pursue the guilty and deliver lhem up in order that justice he done.
"That warning applies not only lo the leaders bul alao to their funclionaries and subordinate's in Germany and in the satellite countries.
Warns Accomplices "All who knowingly take part in the deportation of Jews to their death in Poland or Nor¬ wegians and French to their death In Germany are equally guilty with the executioner. All who share the guilt shall share the punishment.
"Hilier is committing these crimes against humanity in the name of the German people. I ask every German and every man everywhere under Nazi dominatiori to show the world by his aclion that In his heart he does nol share these insape crim¬ inal desires, Let him hide these pursued victims, heip them to get over their borders, and do what he can to save them from the Nazi hangman. I ask him also to keep watch, and to record the evidence that will one day (Continued on Page Four)